What kind of coral is this?

[Gregcoyote]

I touched it and it closed up slowly about like a button polyp or a zoa would and started opening back up. Shortly after. They have a body and foot like a mushroom, and not extending out very far at all.

Still think its aiptasia...

 

[JLH-l3ioCub3]

Still think its aiptasia...

It may be. I just hate to kill them without knowing for sure you know? Especially since at this point they aren't harming anything...

 

[Gregcoyote]

It may be. I just hate to kill them without knowing for sure you know? Especially since at this point they aren't harming anything...

Roger that.

 

[Fishfrye]

Mr. X. Could it be a duncan of some type?

 

[Andy Sager]

The anemone that was commonly imported from the caribbean and called a "Rock Anemone" is easy to identify under blue light. It changes colors like the old Black Light posters of the 60s. If this "thing" isn't glowing under black/blue light, it's probably not a caribbean rock anemone. Most anemones imported from the Pacific were not called "rock anemones" on any availabillity sheets I can recall.
Hope this helps

 

[JLH-l3ioCub3]

The anemone that was commonly imported from the caribbean and called a "Rock Anemone" is easy to identify under blue light. It changes colors like the old Black Light posters of the 60s. If this "thing" isn't glowing under black/blue light, it's probably not a caribbean rock anemone. Most anemones imported from the Pacific were not called "rock anemones" on any availabillity sheets I can recall.
Hope this helps

Yea not one of those then.

 

[mr_X]

It's not a duncan. They build a stony skeleton. There are many shapes and colors of palys.

 

[Gregcoyote]

Would a paly retract? I don't raise them, but usually aiptasia is fast and can even evade being grabbed. I would assume any soft coral is much slower to react.

 

[mr_X]

Yep. it would be slower. I agree that an anemone would have a better survival response.

 

[JLH-l3ioCub3]

Yep. it would be slower. I agree that an anemone would have a better survival response.

When I touched it with a coral feeder it didn't even close up fully. I had to bump it several times for it to close up completely. That to me doesn't seem the way any anemone would react.. Like the other day when I reached my hand into the tank to grab a fallen frag and brushed against my BTA. It disappeared in a second. And it's a pretty large anemone! So, night and day between the two for whatever that's worth.

 

[Andy Sager]

The anemone that was commonly imported from the caribbean and called a "Rock Anemone" is easy to identify under blue light. It changes colors like the old Black Light posters of the 60s. If this "thing" isn't glowing under black/blue light, it's probably not a caribbean rock anemone. Most anemones imported from the Pacific were not called "rock anemones" on any availabillity sheets I can recall.
Hope this helps

We may have established that yours is not one of these but here is an interesting article about the Rock Anemone I mentioned before.
Ugly Duckling Anemones in a New Light

They make me want to start up another SW tank again.

 

[JLH-l3ioCub3]

We may have established that yours is not one of these but here is an interesting article about the Rock Anemone I mentioned before.
Ugly Duckling Anemones in a New Light

They make me want to start up another SW tank again.

Wow. Awesome article! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Andy Sager]

Wow. Awesome article! Thanks for sharing.

No Problem. Glad to share the experience.
I saw this "new exposure" for the first time back in the late 1970s, quite by accident. I was testing a black light I was using for my posters (yes, I'm that old ) in one of my tank light fixtures because I wanted to use a neon poster as a background. What a shock for sure. lol Gave me a whole new appreciation for this anemone.

Hope you finally figure out what you have

 

[JLH-l3ioCub3]

No Problem. Glad to share the experience.
I saw this "new exposure" for the first time back in the late 1970s, quite by accident. I was testing a black light I was using for my posters (yes, I'm that old ) in one of my tank light fixtures because I wanted to use a neon poster as a background. What a shock for sure. lol Gave me a whole new appreciation for this anemone.

Hope you finally figure out what you have

Lol. Thanks again... I'm gonna call them some type of paly for now. Or how about a paly-nem!
Even better! Lol